This is a large object containing the “Sedimentations”, conceived in relation to two other “Archivers”: the “Diarytèque” and the “Infinite Painting”. The “Sedimentary” is simultaneously a generator, a trace and a depository. It is a generator, or workshop, because it is there that the “Sedimentations” are painted; it is there on the wall that the painting takes shape. It is a trace because on that back wall the imprints of paintings are gradually recorded, thus becoming a sort of simulacrum of the pictorial action. It is a depository because it is there, in the space constructed behind the wall, that all of the “Sedimentations”, (started in 2000) are stored in my studio. In a certain way it becomes a measuring device, one that measures quantity. The capacity of the container determines the substance that time forms little by little. The “Sedimentary” is in a continual state of transformation, like a warehouse which is always being emptied and refilled. It helps me to find the right measure. It should never be left empty, but at the same time it should never be too full. Like a current in which the substance produced ebbs and flows, following a rhythm; it does not accumulate and it goes. Since 2020 the “Sedimentary” has been raised on a platform-trolley about 40-cm high in order to integrate it into the other parts of the “Gestureplace”.
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Genesis and development of the Sedimentary
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